Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
His novel, To Sir, With Love (1959), was based on his experiences there. [9] [13] It won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. [14] To Sir, with Love was adapted into a film of the same title, starring Sidney Poitier. Although the film was a box-office success, many critics, and Braithwaite himself, considered it too sentimental.
To Sir, With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on the true story of Braithwaite accepting a teaching post in a secondary school. The novel, in 22 chapters, gives insight into the politics of race and class in postwar London.
To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in a secondary school in the East End of London. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts , Judy Geeson , Suzy Kendall , Patricia Routledge and singer Lulu making her film debut. [ 4 ]
E. R. Braithwaite: 1912–2016: 104: Guyanese author [28] George Braziller: 1916–2017: 101: American book publisher [29] George E. Bria: 1916–2017: 101: American journalist [30] Sir Harry Brittain: 1873–1974: 100: British journalist and founder of the Empire Press Union [31] Arthur Judson Brown: 1856–1963: 106: American clergyman ...
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Braithwaite, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. Braithwaite baronets of Poston (1802) Braithwaite baronets, of Burnham (1954): see Sir Gurney Braithwaite, 1st Baronet (1895–1958)
William Charles Braithwaite (23 December 1862 – 28 January 1922) was a British historian, specialising in the early history of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Braithwaite was born on 23 December 1862, the son of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1818–1905) and Martha Gillett (1823–1895). [ 1 ]
He was married [2] at Hurworth in County Durham, 4 May 1617, to Frances, daughter of James Lawson, of Nesham Abbey. In 1633 his wife died, and in 1639 he married again. His only son by this second marriage, Sir Strafford Brathwait, was killed at sea. [1] Brathwait is believed to have served with the Royalist army in the Civil War.
Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar (c. 1510–1570) was pursemaster for James V and the Captain of Edinburgh Castle during the Regency of Regent Arran. William Hamilton was the son of William Hamilton, also of Sanquhar, and Katherine Kennedy, a daughter of David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis .